339: Billionaires Versus Dinosaurs

About this episode

The hosts review the year 2002 from a tech and science perspective, reflecting on various trends and events.

After a couple years off, we're returning to our annual tradition of each picking a year for our birthdays that we want to review in-depth from a tech and science perspective. This time Will picked 2002 because... well, you'll see, but it gave us the opportunity to reflect on a bunch of just-post-turn-of-the-century tech trends, like weird pre-smartphone mobile devices, the venerable WRT54G, all the Y2K techno-optimistic design trends, digital filmmaking going mainstream, a truly momentous March in the Linux world, the state of file sharing and music piracy, and plenty of other stuff.

People in this episode

Hosts: Brad Shoemaker, Will Smith

Topics covered

• tech trends
• science perspective
• digital filmmaking
• file sharing
• music piracy
• mobile devices

Keywords

• 2002
• tech trends
• science
• Y2K
• digital filmmaking
• file sharing
• music piracy
• mobile devices

Mentioned in this episode

Products: WRT54G

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